The first rule of politics is, “Get re-elected. Everything else comes later.” The Colorado state GOP is now working to eliminate campaign-spending limits here in Colorado.

At first glance, this may appear to be a benign effort to level the playing field, to simply allow those who are able to scrape together a few bucks to pool their resources to help make their voices heard. However, the GOP doesn’t work in amounts of a few bucks. The GOP deals in millions of bucks.

The campaign-spending limit laws are the equalizer. They are there to insure that those with millions and millions cannot outspend those with only thousands. It’s these limits that provide the level playing field.

The cynical among us may think that our state’s elected officials are all for sale. Let the GOP pass this rule and they all will be.

John Walker, Denver

This letter was published in the Jan. 13 edition.

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What he is trying to relay to the GOP, in essence: Stick to fiscal matters, show some compassion for all people, and ditch the narrow-casting of Christianity, along with the political poison of Nixon’s Southern Strategy with alarmist race-baiting (see the Willie Horton ad, etc.). Any lapsed Eisenhower Republican could have written the same thing. That part of the Republican Party has often been drowned out with 40-plus years of fanaticism.

Thank you, Mr. Wadhams!

Pete Simon, Arvada

This letter was published in the Sept. 8 edition.

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